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on my way

Now that is a whiteout

Airport cam lol

4" per in that band

radar is back up this is screen grab from 11:15

Looks like you have to report observations to see whats happening in the band like the old days.

I really hope the lake is still wide open when if that happens.

I have a few friends who got the 2nd shot and its a doozy.

HRRR was pretty good with this event. It showed the heaviest snow well inland near Elma, Alden, Batavia

You're right the radar is down.

Yep I can see it stalling. I don't think it goes too much further north and the seeding across the southern portion of the lake is still going. I'm going to be heading up to my dads place in a little bit.

No, the models had it going back north today.

1.5" last night and 5.7" overnight into this morning. 7.2" storm total unless band comes back south. Up to 62.8" on the year.

Totals so far https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&product=PNS&issuedby=BUF

...A BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN WYOMING... CENTRAL ERIE AND GENESEE COUNTIES... A band of heavy lake effect snow producing snowfall rates of around 2 inches per hour will remain in place from the immediate Buffalo Southtowns eastward to much of Genesee County.

We got hit hard overnight looks like a fresh 6-8” eyeballing.

1.5" so far here. Hard to measure with all the wind. Thought we had more.

The GFS would make you forget quickly about this event.

Some moisture will be added pretty shortly in next few hours and get the bands going again. Hopefully its one band and not two.

Nope its dry air. Winds don't cause bands to completely go away, they cause multi banding structure and cellular cells to take place. Dry air causes the band to entirely disappear.

I should of stuck with my guns. Once I saw that band going earlier, it got me excited.

dry air

We don't have much longer before the lake freezes so this is our last hurrah. Take lots of videos and pictures! Will be following. Disappointing event so far here.

Twin bands over Lake Erie likely to persist all night...but the band along the south shore expected to be the dominant feature. This will extend across immediate southern sub of Buffalo to Lancaster and northeast to Batavia and Monroe county. In fact...this band is feeding the multiple banded lake snow northeast of Lake Ontario that is impacting the Thousand Island Region. The southern lake Erie band will become better organized overnight. While a cap of 6kft will somewhat limit the snowfall rates...once better organized...we should still see rates of an inch an hour from this feature into the initial daylight hours of Saturday. Strong wind fields will push the lake plume into Genesee and Wyoming counties overnight tonight into Saturday, with heavier snow still looking to extend as far east as Corfu, Attica and Batavia. The snow band will begin to diminish late Saturday afternoon, but likely will not completely end until the boundary layer winds become more disorganized and drier air moves in later Saturday evening. In general few changes were made to going snow amount forecast for band of Lake Erie. Over a foot looks likely in many areas, but totals more toward a foot and a half will only be where band becomes nearly stationary overnight. Strong and gusty winds of 15 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph at times will result in considerable blowing and drifting snow and will make the snow hard to measure at times. The blowing and drifting and low visibility will be big issue with this lake event compared to the one that Buffalo Metro experienced the day after Christmas. Near whiteout conditions are expected at times. This will be big factor in potential hazardous travel conditions.